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Table 11–2
Standardized warning signals
Standardized warning signals
Warning Signal Meaning Required actions
Warning 3- to 5-minute steady tone on
sirens or long steady blasts on
horns, whistles, or similar devices.
CBRN Attack 3- to 5-minute wavering tone
on sirens or other devices.
CBRN Warning 3 to 5 minutes of short blasts
from horns, whistles, or other
devices.
All Clear Declared verbally by local official
agencies.
Peacetime emergency exists.
Potential or confirmed hazard to
public health, safety, or property.
CBRN attack is imminent or in
progress or the arrival of nuclear
fallout is imminent.
CBRN attack is imminent or in
progress or the arrival of nuclear
fallout is imminent.
Tune in to local radio, TV, or cable stations for
emergency information. Listen to mass warning
and notification systems for additional instructions.
Be prepared to evacuate or immediately
SIP, move to safe haven, or take other appropriate
protective actions.
Proceed immediately to designated safe havens,
SIP, or take other appropriate actions. Listen for
additional instructions.
Proceed immediately to designated safe havens,
SIP, or take other appropriate actions. Listen for
additional instructions.
Emergency terminated. Resume normal operations or initiate recovery, if
applicable.
i. Implementation considerations. Regardless of the systems utilized to perform this function during an emergency,
installations must ensure that the proper preparations are completed and maintained in order for these systems to be
effective when needed.
(1) Phone lists. Phone lists and phone books are useless without proper maintenance and regular updates. This
maintenance action applies to all installation telephone services as well as all notification lists for both internal
functional areas and external response and recovery partners.
(2) Telephonic Alerting Systems. The use of interactive, community warning and notification systems are capable of
providing voice and/or data messages to multiple receivers with an interactive method to record receipt of notification/
warning and a call-prioritization method compatible with dispersion modeling capability for call prioritization.
(a) Notification lists. In order for these systems to be employed properly, notification lists for each assigned
Functional Area and associated teams/units/personnel must be developed with pre-developed notification groups for
each type of notification scenario (EOC activation level 1–4, TWG meetings, Military Biological Advisory Committee,
EMWG, and committee meetings, evacuation and mass care activations, and damage assessment team activation).
(b) Line prioritization. These systems require proper line prioritization in the associated digital or analog telephone
switches to ensure that (1) the system has proper priority over routine outbound calls (applicable to landline phones
only) and (2) predesignated lines at identified Category 1 and 5 facilities, especially at those temporary facilities
utilized by evacuation and mass care operations (such as collection points, safe havens, call center, community
assistance center, and so forth), have proper priority to override outbound announcements with calls to the installation
dispatch center, installation EOC, and the JIC. Coordinate with the supporting NEC and coordinate with the appropriate
provider if the switches are owned and operated by a commercial carrier.
(c) Digital outbound line tags. These systems must be properly tagged as emergency numbers to override call blocks
(for example, telemarketing, private, and unlisted numbers) and to clearly identify the automated call as an emergency
number in caller identification (caller ID) systems.
(d) Predictive modeling integration. If used with predictive modeling inputs, then the operators must be trained on
documented procedures (SOPs) to conduct such modeling and import the results into the system for call prioritization.
j. Construction requirements. Mass warning and notification capabilities are required in all new inhabited buildings
since the FY 04 construction program. Mass warning and notification is required in existing primary gathering
buildings and existing billeting when implementing a project exceeding the replacement cost threshold specified in
UFC 4–010–01. Facilities include leased, temporary, expeditionary and permanent structures on or outside of DOD
installations.
(1) Inhabited buildings. Inhabited buildings are buildings or portions of buildings routinely occupied by 11 or more
DOD personnel and with a population density of one person per 40 gross square meters (430 gross square feet).
(2) Primary gathering buildings. Primary gathering buildings are inhabited buildings routinely occupied by 50 or
more DOD personnel.
(3) Billeting locations. Billeting locations are any building or portion of a building, regardless of population density,
where 11 or more unaccompanied DOD personnel are routinely housed, including Temporary Lodging Facilities and
military housing permanently converted to unaccompanied housing.
k. Budget and/or resource responsibilities. The EM program and, by direct association, the VIPP MDEP shall serve
as the primary resource sponsor for Mass Warning and Notification Systems on Army installations.
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